Breckenridge, MN has a D safety grade (35/100) with a violent crime rate of 636 per 100,000, 81% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Breckenridge is a small municipal reporter (3,301 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Breckenridge, MN carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 81% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Breckenridge, MN shows violent crime at 636.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 242.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 81% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 127.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 636.2 in 2024 (+400.7%). The highest observed value was 636.2 in 2024 and the lowest 119.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 72.4% of the 29 Part I offenses reported in Breckenridge for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 61.8 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Small-count caution
Breckenridge reported 21 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,301. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 636.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Breckenridge ranks 6 of 276 — above 270 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +550.2% against the cohort median of 97.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Breckenridge's 636.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are St. Paul (617.7), Gilbert (603.9), Brooklyn Center (679.4), International Falls (703.7). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 75.0% of reported property offenses in Breckenridge, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (2). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Breckenridge's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 21 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,301. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 2.6 Census sq mi, Breckenridge logged 3.1 property and 8.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Breckenridge's 2024 book concentrates in aggravated assault (59% of 29 offenses; mix index 4,102).
Violent offenses are 72% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Breckenridge offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 21 | 636.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 515 |
| Rape | 4 | 121.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 8 | 242.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 6 | 181.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 60.6 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,148 | 127.1 | 1937.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,111 | 289.3 | 964.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,352 | 119.3 | 1461.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,312 | 211.4 | 875.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,301 | 636.2 | 242.4 |
Breckenridge Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Breckenridge's 29 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Minnesota cities closest to Breckenridge in population. Their populations run from 3,078 to 3,498, against 3,301 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Breckenridge sits at 636.2/100K violent (grade D); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Breckenridge reported 21 violent crimes and 8 property crimes, for a total of 29 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Breckenridge's violent crime rate increased by 200.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 72.3%.
The most common crime type in Breckenridge is aggravated assault, accounting for 58.6% of all reported crimes (17 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Breckenridge is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Breckenridge's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Breckenridge, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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